Open source software tools have become all the rage, especially around big data and that is a GOOD thing. It allows for many players to work off of the same code base to build more add-on tools and it’s cheap and easy for the masses to get set up and use them. Hadoop, R, Cassandra, Mongo DB, Neo4i and HBase are among the most popular, but there are many more.

I have accumulated 3 lists that are very popular. Please let me know if you see things missing and I’ll attempt to create one large master list and post it on the site. Read More…

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The editors at SearchDataManagement.com have reviewed their most popular Hadoop-related stories of 2013, and taken together, they form a narrative of Hadoop in 2013. The content followed the path of Hadoop and related software tools, such as HBase, as they gained footholds in the enterprise.

Read about the Top 5 Enterprise Hadoop Stories here by Jack Vaughan Read More

Bringing back to the fore one of the most popular posts! With R being one of the most popular programming languages for analytics, we wanted to provide additional free resources to those who are interested in learning more about it. Here are 2 of the most popular introductory videos to learn R. Read More